A reader asks: My husband, 81, began to experience pain in his right hip a couple of years ago. He visited the GP, who sent him for an X-ray, and was advised he had osteoarthritis in his hip. A consultant said he needed a hip replacement. We were surprised as friends who have had this … Read more
Advances in Diabetes Treatment By Camille PeriWebMD Feature WebMD Feature Archive Diabetes treatment is getting better every day. Scientists may be just a few years away from making an artificial pancreas that can safely detect and adjust blood sugar (glucose) levels. In the meantime, new medications and insulin devices can make living with … Read more
During a particularly stressful time, I had a flare-up of perioral dermatitis (PD), a scaly red rash, to the right of my mouth. It’s something I had never even heard of, and definitely was not the run-of-the-mill dry skin that I assumed it to be when it first cropped up. It turns out that perioral … Read more
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